On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Tony Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Tony Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Andreas H. <lists@hilboll.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I think everyone agrees that the webdesign of scipy-central.org needs
>> >> some
>> >> major enhancements in order to make the site appealing to users so that
>> >> they want to stay, browse, and use it.
>> >>
>> >> I think it would make sense to make the site visually similar to the
>> >> main
>> >> SciPy site (new.scipy.org), so that users can already "feel" the
>> >> connection. I'm mainly talking about colors and fonts here.
>> >>
>> >> Also, a logo would be good. For a start, maybe we could use the main
>> >> SciPy
>> >> logo, but eventually, scipy-central should have its own, similar logo.
>> >>
>> >> Then, a sidebar would be nice. Possible blocks for the sidebar include
>> >> 'links to core and related projects', 'what is SciPy', ... ideas
>> >> welcome.
>> >>
>> >> If you agree, I could start playing around with the templates/css over
>> >> the
>> >> next weeks.
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >> Andreas.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Here's a logo concept. The concept is a bit literal: SciPy curve, with
>> > the
>> > background of a globe and arrows pointing from different locations to a
>> > "central" point.
>>>> Thanks for doing that - it looks good.
>>>> But - aren't the arrows pointing dangerously close to the North
>> Atlantic Garbage Patch?
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Garbage_Patch
Now you made me read about ocean pollution for more than half an hour ;(
200,000 invisible particles per square kilometer? Don't go swimming in
the middle of any ocean.
Would pointing the arrows to the central part of the snaky S work?
Cheers,
Josef
>>>> Best,
>>>> Matthew
>>> I had no intention of predicting the code quality of SciPy Central
> submissions when designing this. ;)
>> Best,
> -Tony
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